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This is better than the Magic 8-ball. I DO like the visuals after clicking the Magic 8-ball though!
Lai Ka-Ying. Nominative determinism!
"Laika" is the generic dog name in Russian. Means "barker".
I appreciate you recognizing us as the OG. We've tracked every launch since 2009!

Who is in space, they seem like nice people, I love the Smarter Every Day crew. (They actually tried to buy my domain years ago.) Pretty lame that they're running those insane Starlink ads but it is what it is.

One thing I like better about this one is that it breaks it down by mission and location. Would be a cool improvement to your site.
I also think that would be pretty cool. But, I think one of the things that people have loved about my site is that it really just sticks to answering the question that the URL asks and tries not to get lost in the read-more sauce. At one point we had an iOS app that had more information (and notifications!) but that thing hasn't been updated in a long time.
I feel like this post is just an AI slop copy of that site designed to grab free ad revenue.

I've flagged it and recommend others do the same.

I liked checking that website, until it listed the Artemis II crew for weeks after they came back. Now I have no idea how accurate it is; I don't know what other source to compare it to.

But maybe there's a more reliable method it uses for tracking the ISS astronauts, and the Artemis II needed more human input or something. For what it's worth, both websites currently list the same ten astronauts.

Yeah you're not wrong. I've updated this site by hand since 2009. There's not one data source so for a long time I was that data source. I'll be honest: I got kind of soul-crushed when Bezos and Elon started sending people up in a way that just started to feel really dirty to me. Honestly I hated updating the site, then having to update it again an hour later every time Bezos sent someone up. It's only been in the last year that I've started keeping it current.
This website is unusable without closing out advertisements upon advertisements...
Yeah warning to mobile users, too. Basically unusable website because of the ads.

I miss the ad free web.

Interesting. I don't see any ads, even with my ad blocker turned off.
Those SpaceX suit photos look dumb. I very much prefer the traditional look of the Russian and Chinese crew photos.
Anyone else read this as WHOIS in space? Was ready to find out which TLDs had Galactic Coordinates for contact details
Yes! That’s what I was hoping for when I clicked on it, too!
A good concept, I like it! But pleas make ads less invasive. I understand we all need to pay our bills, but that shouldn't interfere with the user experience. Besides that, I didn't know there were so many guys in space as we speak!
Someone on HN that does not use ad block? This is still so confusing for me. Why not spend 40 seconds and never see any ads more?
Or AdGuard on a Raspberry Pi paired with Tailscale and never see ads on any machines you own again even on cellular.
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> 7. It's another process that can slow down viewing a webpage

I guess.. just like how wearing a seatbelt could end up killing you. Doesn't mean the exact opposite isn't a million times more likely.

> 1. I have had them subtly mess with websites I am working on and I probably wasted multiple hours troubleshooting an issue that wasn't an issue

If your website is going to be used by people with an adblocker, discovering that an adblocker unintentionally breaks your website is a feature of using one, not a bug.

That is true, but does not help a person who is not building a given website.

I have had financial websites impacted by adblockers, which is why I stopped using them. (I do not work on all of the teams building the financial websites I use.)

3 clicks to disable an adblocker on a financial website seems like a trivial price to pay for mental wellbeing and tens of hours of your life not watching video ads, but you do you.
Ad blockers often prevent ads from loading, so overall I'd be surprised if they really ended up slowing down browsing
I was on mobile, there might be mobile ad-blockers for google chrome I dont know about, but I do not use them. On my pc of course I use adblockers, I'd have gone crazy by now if I didn't!!

I could download some browser with adblocking built-in from the appstore but then I wouldn't have access to all my bookmarks and everything from chrome.

For myself, much as I hate the advertisements, I feel like if the creator of those websites are asking for revenue and I’m blocking that, then I’m being a thief of sorts. Or I don’t visit the website.
Looks great with ublock origin running with default settings, fyi.
The helmet portraits look goofy as hell.
I always wondered why in movies they did this. After thinking for 2.3 seconds, I concluded it's because so that movie watchers can see their faces.

Is there any other reason ?

I mean, they don't have lights inside the helmet that shines on your own face, right? That would mess with your ability to see.

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not enough ads, i could almost see the content
Call me crazy... but there's something about their faces. Almost like all of them are brothers and sisters. Creepy in a way.
Who is in space? Well, Tim Curry of course!
I guess we’re doxxing people now
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Didn’t know humans are spending that much time in space, over a year wow! I guess they need to workout daily to keep the muscles intact?
That figure you see on the website is total time in space for that cosmonaut, not one big stretch. Though the record for longest single mission is over 400 days, and record for cumulative longest time is over 1100, both by Russian cosmonauts.
Safari on MacBook Pro sees the time text wrapping in such a way that when the time is pushed to the next line, it literally overlaps partly with the "Total Time in space" label. The time is halfway up the letters of the label.

And these are the biggest ads I've seen obscuring a webpage in a very long time!

neat

adding it to my collection next to

https://NextSpaceFlight.com

bit grusome but would be interesting to compare known time in space against increased cancer and eyesight problems that all the astronauts seem to come back with

I believe longest time in spacewalk was 9 hours but they spent 22 hours outside the capsule during the three days on the moon

cosmic rays are a b*tch

Chinese and Russian space suits are almost identical in the photos!
Destin of Smarter Every Day went down the drain in my books as soon as he published a video about Flagella, and ended it by suggesting it could be intelligent design and told viewers to read a book authored by someone who is a staunch believer of intelligent design.

Crossed the line as a science Youtuber. You don't need to be athiest to be a scientist, and he definitely isn't. But you should at least know the line.

Finding out this site is basically just a copy of something that already existed and something they knew existed just further degrades my opinion of him. Especially with it being littered with ads. The ad literally takes up half my screen.

Yeah, too bad it cost him 0.001% of his audience. That darn line! ::shakefist:: (good thing for him it was the pedantic 0.001%)
"The goal of this website is to spread the amazing actions, feats, and words of the men and women currently aboard the International Space Station."

It is so easy for me to separate the art from the artists, study me

The goal of the website is clearly to serve ads.